principles

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These highly volatile funds are designed for active, short-term traders, not long-term investors, and run counter to diversification principles.

From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026

Eckhard Jann points out that the current system is still largely founded on principles set out in 1944.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

The connectome may also reveal basic principles that apply to nervous systems across species, including humans.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

His work sustained the memory of the Revolution and the founding principles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

I believed he was naturally a man of better tendencies, higher principles, and purer tastes than such as circumstances had developed, education instilled, or destiny encouraged.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë